Posts by Carter Gray Shelter

This past Thursday night in New York City on March 17th, Walker, self-professed “minor league indie rock star”, rolled through the city’s famed Bowery Ballroom for a hometown show full of great songs, an unexpected amount of laughs, and some seriously impressive musicianship. The show was opened by comedian Adam Friedland – enlisted by Ryley […]

When this reviewer first saw Khruangbin live in 2017, co-headlining a 1,000-person venue with Chicano Batman, he might not have pegged the mostly-instrumental Texas trio as a band that would be playing sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall less than five years later. But, in a testament to both the skill of the band […]

“We’re gonna play a lot of songs tonight. It’s the last night of the tour, we’ve got a little bit of gas in the tank, why not? We’re gonna play most of the songs we know,” announced Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall midway through the band’s sold-out show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday. He […]

Last Friday night guitar sensation Mdou Moctar brought his tour behind last year’s standout Afrique Victime back to Brooklyn for a special performance at the Howard Gilman Opera House at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Billed as the first time he’d perform the entire album, the concert served as the first in a series curated […]

It’s been two years since renowned psychedelic funk trio Khruangbin teamed up with R&B singer/songwriter Leon Bridges for Texas Sun, a collaborative EP that paid homage to their shared home state. Now, both with new albums of their own under their belts (Khruangbin’s Mordechai and Bridges’ Gold-Diggers Sound) they’ve joined forces once again with the […]

Following a sporadic handful of shows and festival appearances last year, along with the release of her debut album Juno, Internet funk-pop phenom Remi Wolf embarked on her first proper headlining tour this winter; rolling into New York City’s Webster Hall for two sold out nights last week, the second of which on February 11th […]

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, the fifth album from American folk-rock force of nature Big Thief, isn’t so much a culmination of their career up to this point as it is the beginning of a whole new chapter. Like a butterfly freshly emerged from its chrysalis the album bears some of the […]

After releasing one of last year’s strongest debuts and establishing themselves as one of the most unique and exciting new bands to arrive in years, English post-punk outfit Black Country, New Road make their mark permanent with the monumental Ants From Up Here. The band brings their sound to a new level here, shaving off […]

After a brief hiatus that had her questioning her future in music, Mitski has made her return with her sixth album, Laurel Hell, a tight collection of singalong hooks alongside calloused ruminations on the nature of the muse as well as where her career has led her along with the toll it might have taken.  […]

After spending the last decade building her Hadestown project into a Broadway phenomenon and reworking traditional folk songs with Bonny Light Horseman, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell has returned with her first solo album since 2012. After shaking up her songwriting style working with the Bon Iver and The National-affiliated 37d03d collective, Mitchell delivers a tight set […]